Labor & Employment

  • The Vietnam Silk Garment Company Limited (in Hochiminh City) is completing dissolution procedures. Through the receiving and responding system to businesses’ recommendations, the company would like to ask, what benefits were the employees who signed an indefinite term contract before 2009, how to calculate? For an indefinite term contract signed in 2009, what benefits will the employee receive and how is it calculated?

  • As reflected by THT Company Limited (in Khanh Hoa Province), in the E-HSMT form on Webform, in form 11A Proposal of key personnel, the contractor has imported key staff including the project leader and staff, technical set according to the requirements of bidding documents. Particularly, the list of workers used for the contractor works is not entered according to the form, but scanned the list and worker certificates attached when submitting online bids.

    Through the receiving and responding system to businesses’ recommendations , the THT Co., Ltd. Would like to ask, has the contractor been judged not to meet the capacity of experience in the bid evaluation process and was the contractor disqualified due to this error

  • A reader has email address as thuduongx @ xx sent an email to the Office of Legal Advice of Lao Dong newspaper to ask: I wasenjoying unemployment benefits, recently, because I was busy by  my family’sissue, I forgot to go to the employment service center to inform to find jobs every month. Will my unemployment benefit be suspended? If I still be in time ofenjoying unemployment benefits? and if I continue to notify according to regulations, will I continue to receive unemployment benefits?

  • A reader who has email address as hahuyphanx @ xx emailed to the Office of Legal Advice of Lao Dong to ask: My company specializes in export garments and employs some disabled workers. There are times, companies have to organize overtime to promptly meet the needs of customers. Can we negotiate with disabled workers to increase overtime work?

  • Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Cham (in Hanoi) buys an apartment with the function of commercial service, office stay (officetel).

    Through the receiving and responding to businesses’ recommendations, Mrs. Cham would like to ask, can she let foreign individuals leasing her apartment asbusiness headquarter and project implementation office? Does this violate Clause 11, Article 6 of Housing Law 2014?

    Does  she have to set up a real estate business in order to qualify for the above apartment to be used as an office? Is there any case where a person or a business leases the apartment as above for office purposes without having to carry out business registration procedures for real estate business (renting an apartment from an individual or an owner

  • A reader asked: In the summer, the workload at my company was very large, but many employees in the company requested for a long leave for traveling. How should my company handle this case?